Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
geognosy .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Knowledge of the earth.
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- noun
Knowledge of theEarth .
Etymologies
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Examples
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"No, he has no bent towards exploration, or the enlargement of our geognosis: that would be a special purpose which I could recognize with some approbation, though without felicitating him on a career which so often ends in premature and violent death.
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"No, he has no bent towards exploration, or the enlargement of our geognosis: that would be a special purpose which I could recognize with some approbation, though without felicitating him on a career which so often ends in premature and violent death.
Middlemarch 1871
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"No, he has no bent towards exploration, or the enlargement of our geognosis: that would be a special purpose which I could recognize with some approbation, though without felicitating him on a career which so often ends in premature and violent death.
Middlemarch George Eliot 1849
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